I Will Pour My Spirit Upon Thy Seed (Isaiah 44:3-5) by Rev. Angus Stewart
I. The Rich Promise
II. The Designated Recipients
III. The Wonderful Results
Psalm singing: 87:1-7; 42:6-11; 105:6-12; 128:1-6
Scripture reading: Isaiah 43:21-44:8
Baptism of Elsie Joy Crossett
Homer C. Hoeksema on Isaiah 44:3-5: “Through the pouring out of the Spirit, God’s people will become conscious of their being the possession of Jehovah. They are his property by eternal election, and through the Spirit they become conscious of their election. By their purchase through the blood of Christ, they will become conscious of being one with all the people of God, whom God gathers as the church, the one holy nation, the body of Christ, from the beginning to the end of the world. God’s people know themselves to be part of that living communion, and they confess it. Belonging to Jehovah and belonging to the body of Christ always go together. It is impossible to say, ‘I belong to Jehovah, but I do not belong to the church. I am the Lord’s property, but I am not one with God’s people.’ The two go hand in hand, and God’s people confess this” (Redeemed With Judgment, vol. 2, p. 150).

Psalm 87:1-7
1 UPON the hills of holiness
he his foundation sets.
2 God, more than Jacob’s dwellings all,
delights in Sion’s gates.
3 Things glorious are said of thee,
thou city of the Lord.
4 Rahab and Babel I, to those
that know me, will record:
Behold ev’n Tyrus, and with it
the land of Palestine,
And likewise Ethiopia;
this man was born therein.
5 And it of Sion shall be said,
This man and that man there
Was born ; and he that is most High
himself shall stablish her.
6 When God the people writes, he’ll count
that this man born was there.
7 There be that sing and play; and all
my well-springs in thee are.

Psalm 42:6-11
6 My God, my soul’s cast down in me;
thee therefore mind I will
From Jordan’s land, the Hermonites,
and ev’n from Mizar hill.
7 At the noise of thy water-spouts
deep unto deep doth call;
Thy breaking waves pass over me,
yea, and thy billows all.
8 His loving-kindness yet the Lord
command will in the day,
His song’s with me by night; to God,
by whom I live, I'll pray:
9 And I will say to God my rock,
Why me forgett’st thou so?
Why, for my foes’ oppression,
thus mourning do I go?
10 Tis as a sword within my bones,
when my foes me upbraid;
Ev’n when by them, Where is thy God?
’tis daily to me said.
11 0 why art thou cast down, my soul?
why, thus with grief opprest,
Art thou disquieted in me?
in God still hope and rest:
For yet I know I shall him praise,
who graciously to me
The health is of my countenance,
yea, mine own God is he.

Psalm 105:6-12
6 0 ye that are of Abr’ham’s race,
his servant well approv’n;
And ye that Jacob’s children are,
whom he chose for his own.
7 Because he, and he only, is
the mighty Lord our God;
And his most righteous judgments are
in all the earth abroad.
8 His cov’nant he remember’d hath,
that it may ever stand:
To thousand generations
the word he did command.
9 Which covenant he firmly made
with faithful Abraham,
And unto Isaac, by his oath,
he did renew the same:
10 And unto Jacob, for a law,
he made it firm and sure,
A covenant to Israel,
which ever should endure.
11 He said, I’ll give Canaan’s land
for heritage to you;
12 While they were strangers there, and few,
in number very few:

Psalm 128:1-6
1 BLESS’D is each one that fears the Lord
and walketh in his ways;
2 For of thy labour thou shalt eat,
and happy be always.
3 Thy wife shall as a fruitful vine
by thy house’ sides be found:
Thy children like to olive-plants
about thy table round.
4 Behold, the man that fears the Lord,
thus blessed shall he be.
5 The Lord shall out of Sion give
his blessing unto thee:
Thou shalt Jerus’lem’s good behold
whilst thou on earth dost dwell.
6 Thou shalt thy children’s children see,
and peace on Israel.